Rules about Valuations 1 UST Yahweh also said to Moses, BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses,
2 UST “Tell the Israelites these things for me:‘If a man solemnly promises to set apart{ another} person to{ belong only to} Yahweh,{ Yahweh will be willing to set that person free from having to do that if the responsible man} pays the priest an amount of money. BSB BSB: “Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘When someone makes a special vow to the LORD involving the value of persons,
3 UST The priest must calculate the amount of money in terms of the silver pieces that they use in Yahweh’ s sacred tent.{ You must pay:} 50 pieces of silver for men who are between 20 and 60 years old; BSB BSB: if the valuation concerns a male from twenty to sixty years of age, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel.
4 UST 30 pieces of silver for adult women who are between 20 and 60 years old; BSB BSB: Or if it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.
5 UST 20 pieces of silver for young men who are between 5 and 20 years old; 10 pieces of silver for young women who are between 5 and 20 years old; BSB BSB: And if the person is from five to twenty years of age, then your valuation for the male shall be twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
6 UST 5 pieces of silver for boys who are between 1 month and 5 years old; 3 pieces of silver for girls who are between 1 month and 5 years old; BSB BSB: Now if the person is from one month to five years of age, then your valuation for the male shall be five shekels of silver, and for the female three shekels of silver.
7 UST 15 pieces of silver for men who are more than 60 years old; and 10 pieces of silver for women who are more than 60 years old. BSB BSB: And if the person is sixty years of age or older, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels for the male and ten shekels for the female.
8 UST If anyone who has made such a solemn promise is very poor and unable to pay to set free the person whom he has given to Yahweh, he must take that person to the priest. The priest will set the price for freeing him to an amount that the person can pay. BSB BSB: But if the one making the vow is too poor to pay the valuation, he is to present the person before the priest, who shall set the value according to what the one making the vow can afford.
9 UST If someone solemnly promises Yahweh to give him an animal that is acceptable to him, that animal becomes very special to Yahweh; it belongs to him alone. BSB BSB: If he vows an animal that may be brought as an offering to the LORD, any such animal given to the LORD shall be holy.
10 UST The person who promised to give it must not give another animal instead of the one that he promised. He must not substitute a bad one for a good one or even a better one than the one offered. If he tries to do that, both animals will become dedicated to Yahweh. BSB BSB: He must not replace it or exchange it, either good for bad or bad for good. But if he does substitute one animal for another, both that animal and its substitute will be holy.
11 UST If the animal that he wishes to give to Yahweh is a kind that is unacceptable as an offering, he must take the animal to the priest. BSB BSB: But if the vow involves any of the unclean animals that may not be brought as an offering to the LORD, the animal must be presented before the priest.
12 UST The priest then will decide what its value is, according to the animal’ s quality. Whatever value the priest sets will be the value, and that is the price of the animal. BSB BSB: The priest shall set its value, whether high or low; as the priest values it, the price will be set.
13 UST If the man who gave the animal later decides that he wants to buy it back, he must pay to the priest that price plus an added one- fifth. BSB BSB: If, however, the owner decides to redeem the animal, he must add a fifth to its value.
14 UST Similarly, if someone dedicates his house, setting it apart for the honor of Yahweh, the priest will decide how much it is worth, which will depend on the house’ s condition. Whatever the priest says that it is worth, that will be its value. BSB BSB: Now if a man consecrates his house as holy to the LORD, then the priest shall value it either as good or bad. The price will stand just as the priest values it.
15 UST If a man sets apart his house for the honor of Yahweh, but later he wants to buy it back, he must pay that price plus an added one- fifth, and then the house will belong to him again. BSB BSB: But if he who consecrated his house redeems it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it will belong to him.
16 UST If someone sets apart some of the property that belongs to him and his family for the honor of Yahweh, its value will be determined by the quantity of seed that would be needed to sow that entire tract of land. It will be 50 pieces of silver for each 220 liters of seed. BSB BSB: If a man consecrates to the LORD a parcel of his land, then your valuation shall be proportional to the seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver for every homer of barley seed.
17 UST If he dedicates the field during the year for restoring, its value will be the full amount. BSB BSB: If he consecrates his field during the Year of Jubilee, the price will stand according to your valuation.
18 UST But if he dedicates his field after the restoration year, the priest will calculate the remaining years to the next one and lower the price accordingly. BSB BSB: But if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, the priest is to calculate the price in proportion to the years left until the next Year of Jubilee, so that your valuation will be reduced.
19 UST If the person who dedicated the field later wants to buy it back, he must pay back the field’ s price plus an added one- fifth. Then the field will belong to that man again. BSB BSB: And if the one who consecrated the field decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it shall belong to him.
20 UST However, if he does not buy it back, or if he also sells it to someone else, he may never buy it back again. BSB BSB: If, however, he does not redeem the field, or if he has sold it to another man, it may no longer be redeemed.
21 UST When the year for restoring comes, Yahweh will claim the field permanently as his holy property, and the priest will receive it. BSB BSB: When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will become holy, like a field devoted to the LORD; it becomes the property of the priests.
22 UST If someone dedicates some land that he has bought to Yahweh, land which is not part of the land that his family has always owned, BSB BSB: Now if a man consecrates to the LORD a field he has purchased, which is not a part of his own property,
23 UST the priest must count the number of years until the next year of restoring to determine how much it is worth. The man must pay that amount to the priest on that day. His payment is a holy gift to Yahweh. BSB BSB: then the priest shall calculate for him the value up to the Year of Jubilee, and the man shall pay the assessed value on that day as a sacred offering to the LORD.
24 UST However, in the year for restoring, he will restore the land to the person from whom he bought it, the person whose family had always owned that land. BSB BSB: In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom it was bought—the original owner of the land.
25 UST The priest must always calculate the amount of money in terms of the silver pieces called shekels that they use in Yahweh’ s sacred tent. One piece called a shekel is equal to 20 smaller pieces called gerahs. BSB BSB: Every valuation will be according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
26 UST Since firstborn animals already belong to Yahweh, no one may dedicate the firstborn of any cow or sheep for any purpose. BSB BSB: But no one may consecrate a firstborn of the livestock, because a firstborn belongs to the LORD. Whether it is an ox or a sheep, it is the LORD’s.
27 UST If someone gives Yahweh a{ firstborn} animal that is not one of the acceptable kinds, he may buy it back by paying its standard price plus an added one- fifth of its value. If he does not buy it back, the priest must sell it for its standard price. BSB BSB: But if it is among the unclean animals, then he may redeem it according to your valuation and add a fifth of its value. If it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.
28 UST However, if someone permanently dedicates anything he owns like a person, animal, or family land to Yahweh, you must not restore it or sell it. Anything that you permanently dedicate becomes Yahweh’ s especially sacred property. BSB BSB: Nothing that a man sets apart to the LORD from all he owns—whether a man, an animal, or his inherited land—can be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD.
29 UST You will not let anyone live from the people whom Yahweh has commanded you to completely destroy. You must execute them all. BSB BSB: No person set apart for destruction may be ransomed; he must surely be put to death.
Instruction on Tithes (Deuteronomy 14:22–29; Deuteronomy 26:1–15; Nehemiah 13:10–14)
30 UST One tenth of all the crops and grain or fruit that is produced on anyone’ s land is sacred and belongs to Yahweh. BSB BSB: Thus any tithe from the land, whether from the seed of the land or the fruit of the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD.
31 UST If anyone wants to buy back any of that tenth, he must pay to the priest what it is worth plus an added one- fifth. BSB BSB: If a man wishes to redeem part of his tithe, he must add a fifth to its value.
32 UST One of every ten domestic animals belongs to Yahweh. When someone counts his cattle and sheep as they pass under his walking stick, he must set aside every tenth one for Yahweh. BSB BSB: Every tenth animal from the herd or flock that passes under the shepherd’s rod will be holy to the LORD.
33 UST When he does that, he must not pick out the good ones or leave the bad ones or substitute bad ones for good ones. If he tries to substitute one animal for another, he must set aside both animals for Yahweh, and he may not buy them back.’” BSB BSB: He must not inspect whether it is good or bad, and he shall not make any substitution. But if he does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute shall become holy; they cannot be redeemed.’”
34 UST Those are the commands that Yahweh gave to Moses on Mount Sinai to tell to the Israelites. BSB BSB: These are the commandments that the LORD gave to Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai.
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